The Residence Hall Assocation at UW-Platteville has planned for its annual blood drive to run from Oct. 30 until Nov. 1 in the university rooms of the Pioneer Student Center.
The drive will operate between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. for three days , Emily Niebuhr, RHA president and blood drive coordinator, said.
Students need to bring […]

An unannounced fire drill Oct. 22 caught inhabitants of Boebel, Doudna, Ottensman and Russell halls by surprise.
“I think it went pretty well,” Laurel Skrede, campus police director, said. “I guess the only thing I saw was that some people didn’t get away from the buildings. I’d like to think in a real fire they would.”
According […]

Students learned about alchohol content while playing mock drinking games. The UW-Platteville Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Education Program, University Counseling Services and the Grant County Drug Free Coalition are spreading awareness to UW-P students this week about the importance of safe drinking.
Alcohol Awareness Week kicked off on Monday with a carnation giveaway that took […]

With Halloween approaching, television, print media and the UW-Platteville campus have had the paranormal creep into our daily lives. On Oct. 16, real-life ghost hunter Ross Allison, treated over 60 people to a paranormal pursuit and presentation.
Allison has been interested in the paranormal since a very young age, having ghost stories read at bedtime rather […]

The Chicago Jazz Ensemble is bringing its big band brand of music to UW-Platteville. CJE will be performing at the Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28. The 21-piece assembly, based at Columbia College in Chicago, is a combination of nationally-recognized musicians, university faculty and talented youngsters from the Chicago area.
The group […]

Tryouts for additions to the cheerleading squad are tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 7, to find female and male athletes who would like to show their stuff through stunts, cheers, jumps and tumbles during the basketball season.
Volunteer coach Patti Mitch said the Pioneer cheerleaders are ambitious and motivated athletes.
They are part of the athletic department […]

Students and faculty are taking audiences on a tour through musical theater history in the UW-Platteville original production “Another Opening, Another Show.” The production is a musical review, written in a workshop concept under the direction of faculty members Ann Farrelly and Susan Savage Day.
“We each get to be an artist” Hilary Buttikofer, senior music […]

Halloween is fast approaching, and with it comes costumes, candy and another excuse to throw a party. What could be more fun than men showing off their “guns” and women in scantily-clad outfits portraying public figures with absolutely no sense of self-preservation? How about if women use a little conservation in their costumes?
I’m going to […]

College isn’t about proving yourself to those you meet, you befriend or who judge you incorrectly. It’s not up to you to prove them right or wrong. College isn’t about proving anything to anyone except yourself.
College isn’t about searching for love or begging for it around every corner. It’s not about how many people you’ve […]

I’m a Facebook junkie, and I know I’m not the only one that has to check it every hour of the day. Almost every student can say they have become a victim of Facebook.
I did some research on some statistics to see how much time people spend on Facebook, how many people are active members […]